Spices commonly used to season cooked ground beef may also reduce the risk of consuming compounds called heterocyclic amines (HCAs) that can cause cancer . HCAs are the carcinogenic compounds that…

The widely held notion that warming global temperatures will lead to a future intensification of malaria and an expansion of its global range is at odds with the available evidence, according to a…

In the last yen years, astronomers have discovered scads of strange exploding stars, one-offs that may point to new and unusual physics. Supernova (SN) 2005E, discovered five years ago by the…

Heavy alcohol consumption carries a lot of significant health risks, and researchers from the University of Texas say men who drink too much face a higher risk of pancreatic cancer. In a study…

Data from the ESA's Envisat radar satellite shows that the Gulf of Mexico Oil Spill has entered the Loop Current, a powerful conveyor belt that flows clockwise around the Gulf of Mexico towards…

In India mass scale cutting of trees along the roadside, increasing urbanisation, rampant destruction of trees on private land, forest land, panchayat land. has taken place. Cutting trees and selling…

This month a long time friend graduated with a PhD in science after 7 years of rather difficult studies beyond his master's degree. It was a big relief to him ending a period of weekend laboratories…

On this very date, 18th of May, 30 years ago, Mount St. Helens reawakened with a devastating eruption. If it weren't for the magnificent images taken by the USGS I would have had a hard time …

Just a quick update for my fab fans out there.  And by 'fab' I mean 'PCB fabricators'.  For the Calliope satellite, I need 8 printed circuit boards (PCBs) fabricated for the solar cells.…

Equations of Basic Seldon or Prime Radiant Equations of Section 42R254 Equations of Section 33A2D17 or Terminus Equation Psychohistory Psychohistory, a science in Isaac Asimov's Foundation…

If you follow the blogosphere as a source of information on cutting-edge high-energy-physics results, you certainly by now know that the DZERO collaboration has produced a new exciting result. They…

Propaganda: Desperately Misquoting Authorities Appeal to authority is not necessarily a logical fallacy. It is perfectly in order to present an argument and then bolster it with an accurate reference…

By studying receptors in the brain, researchers at the Swedish medical university Karolinska Institute have managed to show that the dopamine system in healthy, highly creative people is similar in…

The plant eating dinosaur Azendohsaurus is not actually a dinosaur, only a distant relative, according to a new analysis of A. madagaskarensis based on the entire skull rather than on just the teeth…

Grazinglands represent one of the largest land resources in the world, and they also serve as greenhouse gas sinks, taking gases like methane and nitrous oxide out of the atmosphere. A team of…

A new study has found an association between hearing loss and the use of the erectile dysfunction drug Viagra. The findings, published in Archives of Otolaryngology-Head and Neck Surgery, suggest a…

Researchers writing in BMC Immunology suggest that the end of smallpox vaccination in the mid-20th century may have caused a loss of protection that contributed to the rapid contemporary spread of…

Scientists at the University of Miami say Greenland's ice is melting so quickly that the land underneath is rising at an accelerated pace. According to the study, some coastal areas are going up by…

People who focus too much on how they will achieve a goal are more likely to fail than individuals who think abstractly about why they want to do something. Researchers from The University of…

What is the volume of the world's oceans? 1.332 billion cubic kilometers, according to scientists at the Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution. The researchers report that the world's total ocean…